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BOOX: UKULELE LEVEL 2 1
CONTENTS
FOREWORD 2 LI
READING MUSIC 4 EDITMIOITED
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RHYTHMS 5
TECHNIQUE 6
WARM-UPS 7
POPULAR CHORDS 8
GOOGLY EYES!
1.1 INTRODUCING TIME SIGNATURES 10
1.2 USING YOUR THUMBS 11
1.3 PLAYING THE DUET 12
2.1 CRESCENDOS 13
2.2 WHAT FINGER TO USE 13
2.3 DYNAMICS CHANGE 14
3.1 2/4 TIME SIGNATURE 15 soul-tv.com
3.2 THE ‘A’ FINGER 16
3.3 BASICS OF TONALITY 16
4.1 DECRESCENDOS 17
4.2 PLAYING TOGETHER 19
4.3 MNEMONICS CHALLENGE 19
5.1 5 NOTE PATTERNS 20
5.2 SPEED CHALLENGE 20
5.3 COMPOSITION CHALLENGE 20
REVIEW 23
PREPARING FOR BOOX 3 25
BOOX 3 PREVIEW! 26
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FOREWORD
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READING MUSIC
Elements
The elements of music make up the
Element What is it? Keywords
‘building blocks’ of music. Three
Tempo The speed you need to play Fast/Slow
that we use from the beginning are
explained in the table. More elements Pitch The height of the sound High/Low
will appear throughout the boox,
Dynamics The volume in which you play Loud/Soft
adding to your instrumental technique.
The Stave Explained
A Treble clef or ‘G’ clef is there to tell us
where the notes are placed on the 5 lines.
Different instruments can have different clefs.
A stave is made up of five horizontal lines,
indicating the pitch of the note. Treble Clef Lines indicating pitch
The Notes
Notes in the spaces – FACE Notes on the lines – EGBDF
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F
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F A C E E G B D F
Time signature
How many beats per bar/measure
A time signature is there to tell us how
Which note gets one beat
many beats there are per bar/measure.
(Crotchet/Quarter)
Intervals
2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th Octave
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RHYTHMS
A rhythm is a pattern of sound and silence, indicated by different types of notes. Below you can see
how many of each note value you can fit into a Semibreve (Whole Note).
Length of notes Counting: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and
Semibreve (Whole note)
Minims (Half notes)
Crotchets (Quarter notes)
Quavers (Eighth notes) or
In the boox we have rhythms that you read and clap. You can use this chart to help you! Let’s look at
rhythms in terms of movement: the faster you go, the more steps you take, so we can use ‘moving’
words to help us!
4 Beats Long: “Streeeeeetch” 2 Beats long: “Stride”
1 Beat long: “Walk” ½ Beat each: “Skip-ping”, or “Skip”
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
Rhythms on staves
These rhythm boxes represent a 4 beat pattern.
On a music stave we call them bars/measures.
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TECHNIQUE
C BLUES SCALE PATTERN
4 3 2 1
Low G C E A High
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Fret 1 1 1
In Boox 1 you discovered the C minor
pentatonic scale. You add a flattened
5th to the minor pentatonic to make
Fret 2 2 it a blues scale (2nd fret).
Fret 3 3 3 3
C Blues Scale
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WARM-UPS
Warm-up – Exercise 1 Warm-up – Exercise 2
4 Crotchet/Quarter beats on each string 8 Quaver/Eighth beats on each string
Warm-up – Exercise 3 Warm-up – Exercise 4
‘I like to play the note’ on each string ‘I like to change the note’ on each string
‘I like to change the note’ on each string – Exercise1
‘I like to raise the note’ on each string – Exercise 2
Hammer-on warm-up
Play the open string, while it is still ringing put your finger on the 3rd fret
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POPULAR CHORDS
These are the four most popular chords on the ukulele, by book 4 these chords will be a prominent
feature of the music alongside the notation.
C Chord Am Chord
4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
G C E A G C E A
Fret 1 Fret 1
Fret 2 Fret 2 2
Fret 3 3 Fret 3
F Chord G Chord
4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
G C E A G C E A
Fret 1 1 Fret 1
Fret 2 2 Fret 2 1 2
Fret 3 Fret 3 3
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